Greetings and salutations everyone. It's rich Will Simak into Fantasy Baseball Live. Today
is the twenty first of April. It's about nine o'clock in the morning and
I'm here in beautiful oceanlle Beach, North Carolina. This is a setup and
it is seventy seven degrees. I just finished having breakfast on the front porch.
Tim, how's it going out there where you are? Absolutely, it's
almost beyond words. It's twenty about twenty five degrees. We got three inches
of snow last night, blowing snow. Road shut down and I'm just looking
outside and there are more flurries falling. Yeah, it's uh. The only
good thing is it won't take long to melt. I'm sure by July things
will be just perfect. So what's the latest it's snowed there? I've seen
snow in every month of the year except for July. Wow, August,
August, I've seen I've seen snow, yeah around I think it was around
the twentieth of August. It was a number of years ago, and I
remember it real clear because I was living in North Bay at the time.
Went up to visit my girlfriend who was living north of about ninety miles north
and it took me four hours to go to ninety miles on the way back
for the snow in the middle of August. Love, ladies, That's that
is unbelievable, Timmy. That's when you you really have to start taking stock
of what the hell you're doing with your life when it's snowing in the middle
of the middle of August. Well, yeah, either that or substance abuse,
exactly, exactly, lots of substance. How's your baseball week been,
how your team's doing. Uh, I'm middling. It wasn't a really great
week, but I'm dealing with just a slew of injuries and I'm a little
bummed. I'm a little bummed about what I saw yesterday. Well, actually
it started Monday and it continued into last night. And I think we got
a real problem with Logano hobby and it's sad. It really is. Oh
that's the shoulder issue. Yeah, yeah, it looks Yeah Monday, Monday
looked like it was the first time he heard it, and I was a
little concerned then, But after watching what happened last night, I you know,
we haven't got a definitive answer except from the Facebook doctor. So Okay,
at this point in time, that's funny. What are the Facebook doctors
saying, well, a couple of them rror actually saying things that makes sense.
And they're looking at what do they call it a sub Yeah, shoulder
separation. Yeah there, And you know I looked at it at the slow
motion and yeah, there's as much as I don't want to say it,
I think we've got a situation that could potentially mirror what Fernando Tatis has gone
through the past couple of years. And I hope that's not the case,
I really do, but I'm concerned, very very concerned. So if his
shoulder keeps popping out, he's got to be he's having to throw to second
base. That's not good. Well, it's it's it's the left arm.
But again it's the left arm. Yeah yeah, but again, you know
last night looking at him down on for he was in serious pain. Yeah,
something at some point in time will have to be done to correct that.
It's a shame because he's off to a great start. Yeah, but
I mean he could rest it and you know, maybe just just heal that
up and get a fix in the offseason, because if it's not his throwing
arm. He shouldn't affect his hitting. I wouldn't think so, because that's
that's his uh not his lead arm either, So I don't know. I
mean, yeah, he's put it out twice hitting in the past. Oh
okay, or play throw it? So yeah, well, you know what,
the art of bunding may not be lost. That is true. That
is true. I've spent my I spent my entire week to me on my
Patreon site. It went live on Monday or Tuesday, and we've got people
actively over there participating. Let me just give you a sense for what I
have put out. I've been a bit of a crazy man this week,
just trying to get stuff out. So obviously I did the the larger Prospect
Prospect of the Week that came out. I put it out for free for
the first four guys, and then the Patreon people got nineteen. I also
wrote up a little thing on that. I did two webinars or webcast Timmy
on how to use Baseball Savant, and I will continue to do that.
Yeah. So I looked at I looked at a bunch of players. I
started off with what's wrong? If there's anything wrong with Gunner Henderson sitting one
sixty seven and that's not a good start. So with one home run on
one stolen base, yes, I know, well, lots of walks and
lots and lots and lots of strikeouts, so what's going on there? So
I broke that down, and then I went through Taj Bradley and what he's
doing. And then I started asking for a request and Justin Hughes asked for
Bryson Stott, Brandon Marsh, Cody Bellinger's. I did those guys, and
then I've got a whole bunch of other ones that people want me to do,
so I'll be doing that, just breaking down looking at the data,
which is good. I did a scouting trip to see Katee Horton Christian Hernandez
with the Cubs. Yeah part and they look good, No, man,
I encourage. I'm going to go out and read about it and you'll get
a chance to see my observations and thoughts and comments I had from others,
other scouts that were there. A lot of scouts there looking at other guys
as well, which I found to be pretty interesting. And then I did
a video because I'm going to be doing some videos team. I'm not exactly
sure what I'm going to do. And I did a video of my house's
a little five minute like where do I live? So just to give a
sense for, uh, you know, what everything looks like here. So
it was kind of fun. So I'll be doing some videocast this weekend.
I'll be working on a top one twenty five, one fifty and updated that
so taking the top one hundred and expanding it. And then I'm going to
start on my Dynasty League rankings. So that's that's going to be a lot
of work. Yeah, it sounds like a lot of fun though, and
I'm glad you're off to a strong start. So I need your help though.
I Yeah, Well you know what you could do. You could give
me a complake to this pat Patriot say yeah, I out there, I'm
going to do that. I have to figure out I have to figure out
how to do that. They so I'll probably pay for it and they give
you access. We'll have to figure that out, timmy. I I I
I'd love to hang out there and help out in any way that I possibly
can. Well, you can help out the day by answering this question,
because it's over my day. So Chris, I think I think it's over
mind, Okay. Chris Caulfield, who is our buddy from from the UK,
from London, but I don't know if he lives in London or from
England. Yeah, yeah, you've done like dinner. That's right, all
right, So here it is evening. Actually I have a cue about starting
pitching and the to my eyes seemingly odd number of super inflated ear as this
year. It feels like a few more pictures this season have stumbled out of
the blocks in a major way. Is it just a slightly larger at the
far end of expected distribution or is something up Timmy? How do you?
I mean, I think we should look at the data I brought up the
NFBC rankings. Yes, I've got them up up as well, so we'll
ignore Shoeyotana was off to a phenomenal year and everything. So. Corman Burns
has been okay. He was the second pitcher, taking Garret Colesman money.
Seni Alcantaro not good, Spencer Schreider very good, yes, Jacob deGrom very
good, though hopefully he's not hurt. Aaron Nola not good, right,
Brandon Woodruff talk about injury A little concerning there, was good before, very
good before he got injured. Not concerning Shay McClanahan has been very good.
Justin Verlander hasn't pitched yet. That's not good. Max Scherzer, what's going
He's on vacation. May made we talk about Max Scherzer for a moment.
He yeah, I think we should. At thirty nine years old, he
needs to grow up. I mean, I get it, he's Max Scherzer.
He's a bad boy and all that. There are rules out there and
he needs to stop pitching a fit on all of them and just get with
the program. Well, at the same point in time, Major League Baseball
needs to enforce their rules consistently. Domingo her Man ring a bill, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, Well wait a minute. They told Domingo Herman to
go wash his hands. They then told Sz to go wash his hand.
He apparently somebody saw him washing his hands an alcohol and they were still sticky.
So yeah, that was Yeah. I guess I agree with your statement.
But at the same point in time, I think there's two sides to
that coin. And I also think we have a little bit of an over
zealous umpire because only one of them. Phil Cuzzy has done anything about this
problem. Now, is it a problem with Phil Cuzzy or is it a
problem with them hiring crew as a whole or an interpretation of the Major League
Baseball rules. So I get, I get where shows are coming from.
But he's not doing He's not gonna win this bad He's not gonna win and
you're never gonna win these battles, Timmy, it's go ask Trevor Bauer.
I mean, it's it's uh. I mean, at some points on my
point, you gotta get with the program. I mean, stop taking your
belts off when you're doing you know, all of those statements, Timmy,
it's it's what's happening. You've got suspended for ten games? All right?
Well, you know, you know, if you want to be if you
want to be outspoken, I salute you. But there's a price to be
paid for it. The Major League Baseball will make him pay. Yep.
They have no reason not to, right, that's right anyway, So back
down, dylet's see's very good, yes, Shane Bieber very good? Good?
Yeah, Zach Wheeler not not so good? A four ninety one ear
a Julio Arius very good, yes, Carlos Rodon hasn't pitched yet, not
good. Louis Castile extremely good, Christian Hove You're good, not great good,
Kevin Gossman good, very good for the first two starts, got blown
up with the last start, but overall been good. Alec Manoa terrible,
Max Free good but injured, Zach Gelin good after the first two starts.
First two were horrible. All right, let's all right, so it's but
it's a three twenty ear a. Yeah, I wouldn't back. I wouldn't
call that an inflated Going back to Chris's question, I wouldn't call that an
inflated eara. You Darvish, I haven't really looked um Fra Valde numbers.
Numbers are solid. He hasn't won a game yet. Yeah, fram Er
Valdez one eighty ear a. I mean, you know, what more do
you want? So let's just do a couple more. Joe Musgrove has not
played yet, he's the next guy. Robbie Ray got hurt, hasn't played.
George Kirby, Okay, let's see, it's like a mid three three
seventy eight. That's okay. I wouldn't call that inflated. Um Hunter Green,
I think Hunter Green has been good. He might have an overinflated ear
A four twenty four. I mean how much. Well, you know you
mistressed to McKenzie who hasn't pitched, and Logan Gilbert's been okay, and Logan
Webb has been horrible, Cordess and Kershov been good, glasnow hasn't pitched.
Oh yeah, I just stopped there. But but I guess at my point
it I guess it depends on who you have roster, right, Well,
I mean it's because I have a number of these guys have an alecman oma
an FBC team Timmy, i'man like in last place in the era, and
it's it's because of him. Well, I think I think where has happened
is a combination of things. Uh. I think I think the the enforcement
on the rule with regards to the junk on your hands at checking it's had
a minor bearing on it. Um. I think the pitch clock has also
had a minor bearing on things. Okay, because there's been change, and
anytime there's change, it can be subject to problems. Okay for people who
have who do have to make a significant change. But I think my biggest
concern when I look at pitching. Is weather really it's been a crappy April.
It's snowing outside and Fort Francis it shouldn't be snowing outside. We've seen
weather up and down the East Coast that has been horrible. And I think
the combination of all of the above with the fact that a lot of pictures
just simply haven't pitched okay thus far this year, it's just the overall package.
Do I think we have to be concerned? Well, I think one
of the problems is you look at the first round and we have one,
two, three, four. We got five pictures in the top ten who
are under performing. Okay, so your odds are fifty fifty, right,
you got one of those guys. All you have to do is add into
the next round Alex manoah or Max three who hasn't pitched, and all of
a sudden you're one two is shot. You drafted the right guy in the
first round. Odds are good. You've got as number two and three is
you've got Robbie ray A, Joe must Grove. Okay, you've got a
logan web. You know, when you look at how pitching is paired up
through the first five rounds. If you managed to escape some sort of problems
with your starting pitching early on, you're one of the luckiest people on the
planet. And that's what it boils down to, because the odds of getting
your numbers one, two, and three starting pitchers two have all worked out
are infinitely small, aren't they When you look at as you go through the
tiers of pitching. Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna get stuck. You're to
get hammered. And as a result, yeah, I'm in one league,
I'm sitting in fifth and whip with a one twenty five. Yeah, yeah,
that's a one twenty five is not good. Fifth is, but one
twenty five isn't. So I think I think across the board, we're all
paying. We're all paying the paying a price for poor pitching. And the
reason it's it's coming to the four is because it's not one or two teams
in the league. It's everybody's dealing with it, it seems this year.
So I have a slightly different view. I think that, well, I'm
gonna I'm gonna tap into rule changes because that's something that you brought up.
I think that Rob Manford's goal of increasing offense has worked. Um, and
I think you're seeing the net effect with pitchers. Um. Sandy Alcatarra's big
blow up. Three four starts, three really good starts, one bad start.
It was in philadelphe when it was cold, so maybe you chalk that
one up to the bad weather. I'm not sure what happened to Corbyn Burns.
I still think he's a good picture. But it looks like this top
the top top guys you know are okay, a lot of these you know,
low end, number ones high and number two is Timmy. You're getting
smacked around and it could be the rules. So maybe we need to just
readjust our thinking is back to where it was four year four or five years
ago when one twenty five whip was actually pretty good. Dam Yeah okay,
sorry, yeah, lost me there for a second. Yeah, and you
know, I don't trust Rob Manfred. What baseball is he throwing out there
right now? Yeah? He's it's certainly not a dead ball, is it.
Yeah, But we can't control that. I mean, we don't,
we don't know, you know. All we know is Eric Cole's been money,
Spencer Spider has been pretty money, and Jacob deGrom's I mean so there's
been a handful of guys that have been very, very good and maybe they're
just better than these other pictures. And if you go with an alet Minoah,
who's good, maybe not great, Yeah, he might get beaten around
a little bit. Yeah, I mean, I'm hearing with Minoah there's an
issue with the mechanics, which it could very well be. But you know,
for a guy who started his first half season really strong and was third
in the AL so I've opening last year, that's a dreadful start. Yeah,
yeah, it's you know, I expected to see at least what we
saw last year, potentially growth from Minoah, and it has been anything but
that. And you know, you know Chris and his question, okay,
you know he said out of the blocks, stumbled out of the blocks.
Well, a lot of pictures haven't even got out of the blocks yet,
you know what I mean. They haven't pitched. And again they're all you
know, you look through there's probably fifteen pitchers in the top fifty they haven't
pitched or pitched in a limited basis. That's that's tough. Yeah, let
me let me do what I've been doing. Let me take a break,
get back, and I will let me. Let me do what I've done
on the Patreon site, and I will break down alec manoah on his baseball
savant. See what we can see over there. Timmy is to take a
quick break. Will we be rought back? Everybody sounds good person on an
alec Manoah. Timmy still an eighty grade beard slash tats all over him.
He still looks menacing. Would you not agree? Uh? The attitude still,
the size, it all still works. I'm looking at his scorecard,
Timmy. It is mostly blue and grays, which are not good. So
he's getting balls, are getting hit hard, He's not striking at anybody.
He's walking too many guys. The fastball velocity is forty percent in the league.
Spen is still good. So that looks so. I mean, so
it's bad. But his fastball velocity and suffer. Let's let's dig down a
little bit deeper here. Yet. Exit velocity last year was eighty seven point
five. This year it's eighty nine point eight. Not good. His hard
hit rates were some of the best in the league. The last two seasons,
it's gone up to below average. I'm looking at that so and the
problem is his walks. He's walking everybody. There's there's this problem, a
fifteen point five percent walk rate. And I take a look at his scattered
charts to him. Yeah, his slider, which is his money pitch,
that's the one he throws the most, twenty nine point four. He's not
throwing it for strikes. His changeup is completely out of the strike zone.
He's not throwing any of his changeups for strikes at all. And his fastball
is sitting in the heart of the plate. So there you go, Tim,
he's not throwing strikes and his fastball is a meatball sitting run in the
middle of the plate and do it. So guys mechanics, I would say,
well, let's take a look here. The slider is getting hit at
a three fifty three clip. It's not a it's doesn't have a great spin
on a twenty one eighty two. Last year, this slider had a twenty
two sixteen, so it's gone down a little bit. And his fastball is
still a good fastball with good spin. You know, it's interesting. I'm
looking at this and he's changed his pitch mix around. He threw his fast
ball a lot more, threw his fastball thirty six percent of the time.
Last year, he's only throwing at twenty eight point six percent this year.
He's still on a lot more. It's still on a lot more sliders and
sinkers than he has fastballs this year significantly. Well, and if the slider
isn't sliding and the sinker ain't sinking, it's tea of time, isn't it.
But why did that happen? Well? First, first, I mean
why did he change his pitch mix? So first that's the first question,
Like with all the success, why did you decide to do that? And
his slider, which last year was money for him, it doesn't spend all
that Well, we have to go down and take it. Let's take a
look at how much it moves here. So going down last year his slider,
Oh yeah, his slider is great horizontal movement. It's almost one of
those sweepers Timmy, which is a new sexy pitch that Baseball Savant came up.
That's the old who was the reliever that was with the with the Giant
that he was fairly good for a couple of years that had that's frisbee slider.
Oh ju, probably a side armor and it wasn't Yeah, it was
kind of a slide anyway, So they gave it a name, and it's
called a sweeper. Anything that's like a slider, slash curveball that really has
a lot of horizontal movement. They're they're characterizing that as a sweeper. And
of course vertical you mean no, no, it's actually horizontal. So that's
okay, bigger vertical across his own No, okay, vertical is up and
down, Horizontal is sideways. Okay, Well, I have a real serious
problem this morning. I need a coffee exactly. So anyway, so so
he's got his his Oh here here we go, Timmy his he had a
six inch horizontal movement greater than league average last year, and this year with
that slider it's three point eight, so he is not in. In twenty
twenty one it was seven point seven. So this is a guy that got
a tremendous amount of movement on his slider. This year not so much.
So his slider has turned a lot more ordinary. And the fact that doesn't
have a lot of spin on it to begin with, he needs he needs
that horizontal movement on it. So he's got to try to find that feel
for the for the slider sets pitch problem one and then two. His fastball
velocity is his fastball sitting in the heart of the plate, and then his
change up. He's not throwing for strikes, so he's got a number of
problems. I would think they're mostly mechanical as opposed because you don't you don't
see a big drop in velocity. You don't see a big drop and spin.
So yeah, it was like a five mile drop on the fastball.
Yeah, that there's a problem. There's there. It is a point nine
mile part hour drop on the four steamer, which isn't you know. I
mean that doesn't sound like a lot, but I mean it is almost a
mile per hour or so. It's a little bit of dropping. It could
be the cold weather. We'd have to take a look at the games he's
pitched in, but it probably is mechanical. But I'd like to see that
four seamer up a little bit. And his sinker also ninety two seven this
year, last year ninety three three, so it's also down. Yeah.
I I think when you when you start looking going back to the question as
a whole, I think it all boils back to something that you know,
we've been saying for a long period of time. You can never have enough
starting pitching, can you as good as it looked this spring, as you
know, and it did look good, when you start looking at weather,
injuries, etcetera, etcetera, you simply can't have enough starting pitching. You
know. It's that's that's our game, isn't it the game itself? But
alec manoah, do I start him? I do not. In fact,
they rested him this week in my NFEC league. If you've got another picture,
I would not throw him out there because I'm looking at that scattered chart
on his pitches. To him me, he can't throw strikes. That's a
real, real problem, and his slider is not it's not moving as much
as it did in the past, and his velosophy is a little down.
So I'd rather miss a good start then where he finally fixes it, then
actually take on three or four more bad starts, because what we're looking at
with the scatter charts, Sammy, he's gonna get hit hard by anybody,
but I don't know the Oakland A's yeah, so yeah, yeah, you're
gonna need a medio girl offense to start him right now. I agree,
the problem being is that you know the Jays are gonna wheel him out there.
Yeah, and you best got to have a relief pitcher, okay,
with high strake oats sitting on your bench somewhere to protect yourself from these situations.
And yeah, a goes back to my love or lust for Scott Shields
back in the day. You know, if you can find, like I
know right now, a bray you in Houston, Okay, he's not anywhere
near a save, but he's throwing strikes and get generating strikeodes. I think
what fantasy players have to do is start looking at some of those middle relievers,
Michael King maybe in New York. Look, look look at some middle
relievers and have them on your bench so you can insert them for the Alex
minoahs and the pictures that you're struggling, because you don't want to start going
to the waiver wire and throwing out number six seven starters because you're gonna get
the same result. Yeah, for the most part, throwing out Alex Minoa,
you're just gonna dig yourself a whole that could be insurmountable at some point.
So it's best just to hold your earray and whip and your ratio's kind
of constant. Maybe move down a little bit as opposed to you know,
let me put it all on red and see if I can you know,
gamble here and bring it down. That usually doesn't end well for people.
No, I've got several leagues right now where I am sitting last. Toad
is one, I'm sitting third from the bottom, and strike oats, I'm
sitting last in wins, first in EIRA, first in Whip. And the
problem being is I've got Tristan McKenzie, Luis Severino, Rangers, Squarez and
somebody else all out right now. And what I'm doing is I'm putting into
my lineup relief pictures with high strikeo race to try and at least stay in
the game until I get some of my walking wounded back. So at least
I'm protecting my ERA and Whip and at some point in time, if I
have to throw a slew of number six seven starters out there, okay,
to try and get wins, I should have enough cushion in ERA and Whip
that I can absorb some of it. Yep, if that makes sense.
It's a tough game. Yeah, I've got one league. Let me give
you another anecdote here. I have one league to me where I was off.
I think at the beginning of last week, I had like a six
and a half eara was just awful. That's where I had the likes of
Corbyn Burns who were just blowing up, and Eddie Cabrera and those kind of
guys. And I decided just to go ahead and put in relievers. So
I threw in Chapman, Diaz men As, you got hurt Kemberroll robertson,
all of those guys. I had five relievers going, and now my ear
a is sitting at four one to eight, and I've gone from second to
last to eighth. And just listen to these eras, Timmy, in this
league I got a four point one eight somebody else with a four point one
eight four two seven four two eight four five five, four fifty seven,
four fifty eight, four sixty six, forty five and five forty five,
Timmy, this is these are earas in these leagues. This is crazy.
Well, yeah, I can remember when anything over a four arra would pretty
well get your last, but Whip one twenty was a Greg whip. And
one of my leagues I'm sitting with one twenty four and I got four points
in whips and whip. Yeah. So again, adjusting to what it appears
to be a new norm this year is crucial in your pitching evaluation. And
maybe you know, with everything that's going on in the game, maybe a
one thirty whip for eight points isn't no lie bed Yep. It's a point
to generates at the end of the day, right, that not the specific
number, right. Yeah. And I think in the recissory league, I
agree with Tim just you know, just tread water. It's okay to tread
water for you know, a few weeks until you get your guys back in
that league. To me, I got Musgrove coming back, So I've got
some other guys that I can count on that are coming off the injury list
that are going to help me. And I just I'm not going to throw
out, you know, a picture going up against Houston Ryan Nelson, who
I like, but I'm not going to throw them up against Houston. I'll
throw them up against Miami, but not Houston. Yeah. Well, exactly,
because you know, you can you can sit back and you know,
one of the prime examples wouldn't go back to last week's waiver imect it recommended
picking a bran bellow. I also recommended not starting him, and he got
He got smacked around big time in his first start, and I was more
concerned about the second. You know, hey, if you want to take
a chance on some of these young pictures, I don't. I don't have
any problems with that, but you know your parameters. If you're starting a
guy against a hot hitting team on the road, at home wherever, in
his first start, you're you're asking for trouble and seventy five percent of the
time, eighty percent of the time you're going to reap exactly what is So
it's not good, yea. So back on to Alecmano a final thing and
then we'll take another break That's the kind of breakdown I'm doing doing, Timmy.
It's it's a video cast. I'm giving people like how to look at
baseball savant and how to then how to try to make conclusions on that,
and just as a the Gunner Henderson and one of the things because somebody told
me I need to chill lax and Gunner Henderson he's going to be fine.
He probably will be, Timmy. But here's the problem. He has one
of the highest strikeout rates in the league and one of the highest walk rates
in the league. That's highly unusual. That's Ian happ Ish, that's Caven
Bijio isc that's the those when yeah Schober, Yeah, Now, I don't
think Gunner Henderson has got eighty great power like Schreber does. But you got
to be careful with you guys that are really passive at the plate, and
Shober is not, but the other two are. Caven Bijo doesn't look is
he on a major league team? Now, I didn't even know. And
Ian Happ is a fine player, Timmy, But I think we have more
expectations of Gunner Henderson than Ian Happ. But what's what happens when you get
passive and you sit there and you look, and then you look, dig,
dig deeper in and find out what he's doing on as you know,
I want zero zero accounts. You know, the first two pitches and of
your son, you look and he's never swinging the poll and that's a problem.
So yeah, pitchers know that, and you get down zero and two
and you're dead. So so that's the kind of so just because the guy
is walking a lot at a twenty two percent rate. That's actually a red
flag. Unless you're Schober. You know, that's a big red flag.
So everybody, when you're looking at this kind of stuff, go, I'd
rather have a like a guy with a ten percent walk rate and you know,
a fifteen percent strikeout rate than a twenty two percent walk rate and a
thirty percent striker. Right, that's not what you want, No, Timmy,
Let's take a break, get back, and great stuff. Again.
I appreciate that because one of your questions later on, Yeah, you answered
it for me. Oh okay, all right, let's take a break,
Timmy, and get back and uh, we've got nine other questions to go
thirty minutes. I drafted Scott Barlow and my NFBC team. I was pretty
happy about that selection. I debated him or David Bendner. Obviously I picked
the wrong guy. And then when a roll As Chapman got hired by the
Kansas City Royals, I wasn't worried because Chapman was terrible and Barlow was good
last year and Chapman he's done. I mean, look, he was awful,
Timmy. He has been absolutely, arguably the best reliever in the game
so far. He's been unhitable, and Scott Barlow, I don't know if
he's feeling the heat. I don't know what's going on there, but he
looks terrible. When do we gonna see that switch? I mean, it
seems inevitable. Well, I sent you an updated closure report on what Tuesday
or Wednesday? And what order did I have them in? You had Chapman
first, I did, and I think that's exactly where it sits right now,
you know, heading into the season. I know a lot of people
thought I was crazy, but my rationelle was Chapman's on a one year deal.
They're gonna have to move them, They're gonna have to give them opportunities.
Well, Scott Barlow is sort of forcing that situation, as is the
Roldest Chapman. As you said that Chapman's been unhittable. You know, they
don't have to do much to extract value from a rolldest Chapman right now,
do they. He's gonna get an opportunity simply because he's pitching better, and
he's pitching really good. So hey, if Chapman's still sitting out there in
any of your leagues, get him a roster. As I absolutely understood your
logic and agree with your logic. I just didn't think it would happen.
I mean, I think, like last year, yeah, Chapman, I
had Chapman and two Dynasty leagues. Unfortunately didn't drop them. I don't know
why, just because it's probably a rolldist Chapman. I'm like, maybe I
just should hold on to him. I glad I did. But he was
brutal, absolutely brutal last year. Yeah, he was. I think there's
also some motivation here too. I don't think a Rolla's Chapman's ready to hang
it up, clearly not. No, last year it looked like he was.
Yeah, I think there's some motivation involved in there. But you got
to get a Rolla's Chapman active and you got to get him going. Good.
Good news. Daniel Bard is back. He's pitching pitch Wallda's first out,
and he suffered from some anxiety Timmy, which is not is a very
serious issue and one that we've talked about. I'm assuming he's going to be
your closer here very soon. Yeah. I think what the Rockies will do
is they'll work him back in slowly. Okay, Pierce Johnson's pitch very well
Okay, he's gotten the job done, so it's not like there's an immediate
rush to throw Bart into the ninth inning in his face. That the Rockies
are playing for what twenty seventh overall, something along those lines. So I
think what you'll see is you'll see Bard, you know, hey, over
the next week, week and have two weeks. He'll slowly slide back into
the role and Derce Johnson will be a setup guy. And the way we
go. I saw a post by you somewhere must have a Facebook. You
suggested that the A's better watch out because the Rockies are catching up or something
like that as the worst team in baseball, which is true. But here's
here's the here's the difference. The A's want to be terrible. They have
they're not paying anybody. The Rockies are timmy there there there. You could
argue they're worse than the A's because they've got quote unquote better players. Well
yeah, but you could also argue the situation the A's are end is because
they're billionaire owner. One's a free stadium right the bud Sea League Handbook somewhere,
Jeffrey Laurie is sitting there smiling, okay, and what's happening in Oakland
is wrong, and for Major League Baseball to support or it is equally wrong.
Yeah. I get it. For another day, Yeah, I mean,
I get it. We'll talk about that on Sunday, but you know,
I will say maybe he was disingenuous, but I mean they've been talking
with the Oakland City Council and I think the sand the San Jose a little
bit further down the peninsula to try to get a new stadium built in that
He's just not gotten any traction. So he moved. Well, hey,
Vegas is going to give him. It looks like with half a billion dollars
towards the stadium. Yeah, yeah, yeah, which I think is criminal.
Which I think is criminal in the first place. I don't think billionaire
owners of billion a billion dollars franchises should get any public money. But that's
just me. So let me give you a personal anecdote. So I grew
up in Baltimore, Maryland. I was there. I think I was twenty
or so when the Colts left and the dead of the night, well I'm
not dead, and I'm probably five o'clock in the morning. This famous picture
of the Mayflower moving vans going out and it's snow and taking all the equipment.
And then a few hours later Bob Ersey, who owned the Colts at
the time, they're in Indianapolis, going we're here, we've moved, and
everybody in Baltimore going, that's criminal. You can't do that. And Timmy,
I lived for years with nobody going to the games the Baltimore area refusing
to build a new stadium and all that, and he said, well,
screw it, I'll go somewhere else and do it. And he did.
And I mean, and it's that kind of stuff in sports happens, you
know, not a lot, but it happens. Yeah. I guess my
problem is, hey, you are replaced to play with your toys, pay
for it. I don't take the public should be Oh yeah, that's definitely
a conversation for a different That's absolutely a conversation for different because you're absolutely I
mean, that's yeah, you're absolutely right. Should it be government funded these
stadiums or should the rich owners do it? And I actually think it should
be the rich owners. But the rich owners don't have to because somebody will
because somebody stupid have Yeah, what brings me back to my love for Jeffrey
Lauria, which again is a topic for another day. Right, there was
there was something recent where I forgot oh I think it was Oh it was
Amazon, basically was I think it was Amazon. One of the big corporations
was was going around saying, hey, we're going to move to this third
tier city, right, and the people were all excited. They were off
on them all kinds of incentives and where they were currently at. They go,
okay, well, we'll just give you what you want and then they
forked over the money and all of a sudden, the other the other city
that was like, hey, look at us, We're gonna get Amazon,
or we're gonna have all this employment. It's all gonna be good. The
rug got pulled out for a moment. You know, they were never gonna
move, Tommy. They didn't want to move out of the big cities.
And you see that kind of stuff happen all the time in business. Yeah,
the game and the business of the game are two very different things.
Yeah, very much so. And I feel bad for the Oakland Athletic fans.
The little ones are there, But Timmy, they had thirty four people
at a game. Well yeah, and there's a reason terrible team. YEP,
an owner who doesn't want to put anything into it and then fans say
no, So maybe it's time that we just end us. Yeah. Yeah,
it's sad though, as as a fan of the expos, it is
sad, it really is. What's not sad, Timmy, is Liam Hendricks
being cancer free. Yes, great news there, and uh, you know
when I when I saw the when they put them on the fifteen day instead
of the sixty day, I l I think that was our first tens.
And you know, the confirmation that he's cancer free is such great news.
I think we will see Hendricks back pitching middle middle end of May. I
agree, And that's that's awesome. It's amazing. Yeah, and you know
what it on on a personal level, it is off the charts good for
the Chicago White Sox and baseball and us in our fantasy game. It's also
very very good. I haven't been a league, Timmy, and uh I've
got him into yeah, Labor, I'm oh, good for you. I'm
I'm excited about him coming back. Obviously very good pitch. I mean it,
you know, will he come back well the way he was before?
I don't know him. I mean we don't. We don't know. I
mean, we're uncharted territory here, so we don't know what. I'm assuming
he had chemotherapy. I think he did, so we don't know what that
did. You know how much that took out him. We just don't.
We have no idea, so we just need to see what happens. But
it's it's great news. Yeah, question number three, Yes, okay,
this is a quick one. So Kyle Brady is pitch. Well, it
was the National Timmy went six innings, five fits, no run, six
strikeouts in a walk. Baseball Savant data has always looked really good. Spin
rate is ticked up on Wednesday. Fastball spin rate was twenty four thirteen.
As you know, that's really good. Curveball twenty five sixty two, a
slider twenty six eighteen. That's really big stuff. Are you buying or staying
away until he faces a better team? Well, his next game is at
home against Boston. I'll take it. The only concern I have is if
Phil Cozy is I'm painting. Yeah, I thinktis. I think Bratish has
a chance to be a pretty good pitcher. I've always been a little high
on him, even when was in the minor leagues, So I mean that
that's really good stuff. He throws hard, the ball is moving, He's
never had command of anything. He's got a weird delivery. It's probably more
of a relievered delivery. But I don't know Tim. They want to make
it a starter. I'm not going to put anything past the Orioles. I
think that's a smart organization. Well, when you look at what's happening this
week, you'll look at how it relates to the waiver wear. I like
British even more because so many people are totally enamored with question for Mason Miller,
and they're going to be spending a pile on Mason Miller. It might
be one of those weeks where you can do very well by looking at other
options, and I think British is one of those options, and he will
be in my waiver wear. Mason Miller is amazing to him. I mean
this is I mean, I wrote he broke baseball Savannah. They've never seen
that kind of stuff. I mean, it's it's one hundred mile average velocity
with crazy spin rates. It's the ball is moving all over the place.
And he pitched at least for four innings. To him. He was dominant.
He got you know, maybe tired at the fifth inning, but I
know people are going to be spending a bundle. You've talked about him now
for several weeks. He got the call. He's pitching well. But Timmy,
he's got two or three screws in his elbow. He's had injuries on
his shoulder. This is a guy who's worked through diabet took diabetes. Yeah,
I said, type one diabetics. So this is a guy with like
red flashing lights on his health, particularly with his elbow. He just he
throws so hard and you don't get that spin rate, Timmy, without a
lot of torque in your arm. So, you know, just everybody long
term and the Dynasty League just know this that if he breaks down, it's
not going to be an unexpected thing. Well, no, and you know
when when you look at you know, I started looking at him after he
pitched the five inning. That five inning, basically perfect game. Okay.
The only runner he allowed was on a strikeout where the catcher didn't get the
ball dropped a dropped Yeah, the minor league game. Yeah, that's and
I started looking at the numbers and the fact that he threw like a third
of his pitches at one hundred miles an hour plus and said, hey,
look at the Oakland rotation. It's absolutely terrible. Could they possibly look at
Miller? And they did so. I certainly got lucky on that one,
But when you look at the overall package, yeah, your warning is definitely
right bang on. And you know what, You're gonna pay a fortune for
this guy this week, and he's not going to get your wins. He's
not going to get your quality starts. In all likelihood. If you're looking
for strikeoats, he's going to deliver in the rara and the whip could be
decent. But you know, I went to CBS. He won't be in
my waiver wire article this week because he's already up to fifty two percent roster
and CBS in a week. Timmy, he's amazing. He was drafted in
two thousand and twenty one, sou part full, part of two thousand twenty
one, all of twenty two and twenty three. Yes, he's pitched twenty
eight innings. I know, yeah, you know I when when I hey,
I've got Miller in a couple of weeks, and I've I've got him
on on cheap bids. Okay, that's awesome, ye, but am I
gonna pay for Mason Miller? No, that's an entirely different kettle of fish.
Twenty eight two thirds innings, fifty three strikeouts, six walks. Yeah,
that's a that's a nine to one strikeout to walk, right, And
I mean it's just nuts. It is off the chart stuff. And maybe
the human body is not meant to be able to throw that hard with that
much stork on on his arm. But I don't know, Timmy, It's
it's crazy stuff. Yeah. Again, just really really know your parameters before
you submit them a fab bid using thirty percent of your budget. Totally agree,
Totally agree. Let's see, let's do a quick Garrett Mitchell. Then
we'll take a break and then talk about the pirates. So which is which
is crazy? He separated his shoulder, be out for a while. Joey
wiemer gets gets a start. Timmy, it's been okay. Sixty two played
appearance as a home run, two stolen bases, only a two or four
batting average, but a decent one base percentage at three or six hundred points.
On top of it, not much slug. He's got the big speed,
just not hitting the ball with much authority. Do you think he could
be an asset to your fantasy team? Yeah, in fifteen and twenty team
leagues. Yeah, because he's gonna play and today the speed's real. He's
gonna get you some stolen bases. I think if you're looking at twelve team
leagues, I think there's probably better options. But in deeper leagues, yeah,
I think you'll be okay. I don't like I don't like a swing,
so you know, you never have. I think we'll go get exposed.
I think he's a part time player, which brings me to the second
point. South Frelick, who I like a lot. It's not been playing
all that well, Timmy is if is Frelick a possible option? Here is
it's just let's let's go with Weimer. The Brewers is gonna go with Weemer
until Garrett Mitchell is healed. Well, I don't know if they'll go with
Garrett Mitchell until I mean, I don't mean, I don't think they'll go
with Joey Weemer until Garrett Mitchell is healed, because that could be a while,
you know. But at the same point in time, Milwaukee's winning,
right now right, they're playing really good baseball, so there's no rusher urgency
to move Freylake up. Okay, I think eventually, yeah, Freylick's gonna
heat up and he's gonna get a promotion and he'll own the job. But
I think they're gonna leave him in Triple A until he does heat up because
there is no urgency at this point in time. So my advice is,
if you have sel Freylake, especially in a redraft league, if you've got
him on your team, don't give up on him. Definitely not hold him.
Exercise patients, and at some point in time we will see him this
year. And when we do see him, he's not gonna be up for
a week or two. He's gonna be up for the he's gonna be up
for the full Monty. He'll be there for the balance of the year.
So exercise patience and just just hold on. We'll see self, like I
have no doubt. Okay, Well, somebody's gonna be naked here soon,
that's what tim just said. When we get back, we're gonna find out
who that is. And talking about the Pittsburgh Pirates, Timmy, you know,
look, let's face it, the Pittsburgh Pirates have been aren't kicking child
for many many years. Yeah, it's not a very good it's easy to
do. Yeah, yeah, it's easy. I'm not looking at their win
loss, right, got I gotta sneeze here, Timmy, Okay, bless
you. Okay, sorry about that rebinding. I hope you didn't hear that.
So oh you did? Okay, well hopefully, Oh dear, Oh
I tried to anyway, I don't I don't know what the record is.
I'm gonna have in a front to me. I think it was like thirteen
and seven is something like that, which I don't know what the last time
they've been this far, or five hundred in the late part of April.
But it's it's not a typical thing. Uh No, it's definitely not a
typical thing. And right right now they're thirteen and seven. They're a game
and a half behind the Milwaukee Brewers at fourteen and five, and everybody's consensus
easy march to a victory. Saint Louis Cardinals are eight and eleven, the
Cubs are eleven and seven. Yeah, we'll talk about the Cubs movie next
week, Tim, But yeah, they started to run oddly enough with O'Neil
Cruz, who you know is the most famous player, the most exciting player,
is the best player probably Brian Reynolds is. But I mean that's when
they started their run. It's kind of weird. Yeah, it's it's kind
of totally it's it's almost like it's so Pittsburgh, right, yeah, yeah,
just when you know it's time to time to kick him again because they
lost. I mean, they're gonna be dreadful. They're actually playing well.
A lot of it is fueled by pitching, by pitching, and the top
of the order, you know, Ryan Hayes, Reynolds, Andrew McCutcheon.
Uh, one of my my, hey my recommended weaver wire bat this week
is currently hitting fifth in that in that order, and then they're getting pitching,
and you know, hey, Bay is playing great in the second base.
He's been a huge asset in fantasy leagues. You know, Castro starting
to show some life. I might have cut him too early in labor.
But yeah, the Pirates are playing well, they really are. Yeah,
keep Bryant hay Simmy is is. That's a good player and a guy that
they gave a lot of money to which the Pirates don't happens. He might
be the best third baseman in the game, and that's including Matt Chapman.
It's a great defender. I don't know if you've ever just a chance to
watch him, he just it's just a vacuum over there. It's impressive.
But he's he's playing extremely well. Andrew McCutcheon, as you said, has
shown life and Brian Reynolds is their best player. Jack Zewinski's thought, okay
too, And yeah, he's hitting the ball a mile, you know,
and you look at pitching, pitching, and that's that's where it's been.
Well. You know, Ron Sneak contres got off to a really poor start,
but in his past two games he has looked really, really good.
He shut the Cards down this last game this week. I think he yellowed
just one ear and run. If Contreras is out there, uh give him
a look. You gotta get you gotta get him rostered. He's hot right
now, pitching very well. And uh you know, hey, me and
the Pirates are playing good baseball. I took my cap to them. Yeah,
Ron, Rons and he's got a four fifteen ear eight. But as
you said, it's it's uh been the last two starts, especially yesterday's was
very good. So uh and a guy Ovieta is playing, he's pitching very
well. That's been the guy that's been very impressive. Can he keep that
up? Well? If I'm not mistaken? Wasn't he a? He's still
fairly young. He's only twenty five? I think twenty four, twenty five.
He was a fairly highly touted prospect in the Cardinals system, wasn't he?
Yes, big arm could ever throw strikes? Right? Well, he's
throwing strikes, so it's not as if it's coming out of nowhere. Good
acquisition by the pirates, you know, Mitch Keller, Alaska's yeah, Hey,
not household names, but they're pitching well, and they're getting the job
done and keeping them in games, and the offenses enough and more than enough
in a lot of cases. You get to the bullpen and you got Underwood
and Olderman and David Bedner's as good as anybody in the game right now,
isn't he. Yeah, let's let's go back to Avita. Yes, you're
you're correct. Came up through the Cardinals organization, signed as a sixteen year
old out of Venezuela, out of Cuba, Cuba, kid, I'm looking
here's some walks per nine back in the minor leagues five point one, four
point eight, five point three, four or four point one. Last year
at Pittsburgh, timmy thirty endings a four point seven. So this two point
nine six, you know, is interesting. You know where did that come
from? So we probably need to dig in a little bit there. But
I mean striking out over a batter and ending a less than three per ninth
three walks per nine everybody is average control, so he's a little bit better
than that. And in fact, if he only has average control with this
stuff, it's going to be a really good pitcher. So well, yeah,
I think in dynasty leagues, I think there's something there. Yep,
agree, something very good there. So do they finish over five hundred or
is this just a hot stretch they're going through. I think there are I
think they're four eighty type team that is playing extremely well right now. Uh,
their pitching can hold up, Tim, if their pitching can hold up,
Yeah, there are five. Alaska's is been really good out that good
buddy. Yeah. If Contreras and n Avieto are the real we a long
believe that Mitch Keller would start to step it up. He's starting to do
that a little bit. That's three pretty good pitchers. Well yeah, but
again, you gotta in the back of your mind, you gotta think it's
Pittsburgh, right, So they'll trade David Bedner at the deadline, no,
or Reynolds, or they'll they'll do with you know what I mean, they'll
do at some point in time what Pittsburgh does. Oh okay, which means
yeah, they might be a five five hundred team. They're not gonna go
old. Uh, They're not going to go out and sign anybody at the
deadline. If they're ten games over five hundred in the middle of July,
are they now? Yeah? The history would say, history would say no.
Yeah. Yeah. So again, how good can they be? I
think right now is about as good as they will be all season. This
is it, and it's gets good. It's great to see. Yeah,
well they've got they've got a pretty decent minor league system. So you can
see Priestrup pretty soon as well. So you know, it's I it feels
a bit a bit of a turn here, particularly if Keith Brian Hayes is
starting to share the real deal. They'll get a Neil Cruise back at some
point later in the season, definitely for next year. It seems like some
building blocks finally in Pittsburgh to me. I mean, it might not amount
to anything, but these are players that maybe you can look and go,
well you can actually play. Yeah again, it's it's optimism. Well we'll
see. Hopefully Bob Nutting doesn't do anything to destroy that optimism. Timmy,
Let's move on. Um I have when we talk about or sleepers, I
got some, I'm right, got some, I'm wrong. And that guy
so far, I've been dead wrong about it. That s Anthony Rondade.
Yeah, he's hitting like two ninety. There's no power, there's no speed,
there's climbing in the stands and grabbing people and all that kind of nonsense.
I've been wrong on him, Timmy. Who is the guy you have
not felt good about that you recommended this year. Well, we're not gonna
have to talk long about this because we already have Gunner Henderson. He concerns
me in a big, big way. You're looking at a fifty sixth round
pick and he's not delivering. I don't I don't like what I'm seeing.
And because we you know, we expanded on that a little earlier. I
think it's much much to say that it hasn't been said. But I've got
Gunner Henderson and a couple of redraft leaks, and he's not helping me.
Yeah, you can't. You can't start him, Timmy. It's it's just
it's time toime. I have no choice. I have no choice. Oh
yeah, now that's what was he playing? Third base? Yep, that's
the one. Yeah, well, yeah, you're right. I mean,
so two third basements him we got wrong. And that's already a shallow that's
already a shallow position to begin with. You. I mean, look,
I saw Gunner Hinderson play a lot in the minor leagues. I still love
the player, Timmy. If you told me Monday he's back in the minor
leagues, it would not shock me. Yeah. And if you told me
at the same point in time, by next Friday he has four home runs
in twelve RBIs, I wouldn't drug me either, because he's got he's got
the skull to do it. I don't know what the heck has happened with
his approach today. I don't understand. Maybe the game has gotten to him
a little bit, and he is just you know, just up there.
You know it's afraid to swing happens. Yeah, so yeah, don't want
to make a mistake. That's that's that's always a bit in life, tim
You have to be willing to make mistakes, otherwise you won't get anything done.
Yeah. Well I was gonna say, yeah, you can't live on
the edge forever. Falling off is better than just standing there watching and go
by. Right. Another guy that I didn't recommend. I actually drafted him
in your twenty team league, Timmy, just because I got caught out with
shortstopping I was when I picked him. I'm going, he can't be as
bad as he was last year. It just it just can't be. Yet
he was such a fantasy darling for so many years. He's not that old.
And this is Hobby or Bay as Tim. But let me give you
his stat line. This was before yesterday's game. If they played, he's
hitting one ninety seven. There are no home runs, there are no stolen
bases, and oh yeah he got benched for lack of hustle. Actually it
wasn't hustle. It was forgetting how many outs there were and just like completely
not paying attention in the game. I mean, it is a fricking disaster
with Hobby bay As. My question is do you drop him? Is he
droppable at this point or is it like Hobby bay As, you can't drop
him? Well, I think I think he's droppable, But you gotta have
some you had have an option to pick up to replace him, right,
I'm sure can find somebody who's batting better than one ninety seven with a home
run or a stolen base. Drop him if you're gonna buy somebody better.
Yeah, you have my blessing. I mean, this is Jackie Bradley Junior,
bad Timmy remember, and he was always the last guy on the face.
I mean, this is terrible. I mean, what the hell has
happened? Yeah? You know yo who he reminds me of. I'm having
a brain cramp here because I can't remember his name. I'll remember as soon
as we get off the air. I believe he's with Minneso. Oh Carlos,
Oh, this is Carlos Gomez Part two day. You know that's a
great comp I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you why. Carlos Gomez. Terrible approach,
it tremendous bat speed, tremendous athleticism, the bats, he started to
slow down just a smidge and he was done. And Tavy bayas great bat
speed, incredibly athletic, same profile, terrible approach, and those guys have
short careers. I think that's a great comp Yeah. And you know in
Milwaukee he had some absolutely great two or three peaked seasons to me that were
phenomenal. Yeah, and then he went from you know, nineteen homers,
twenty four, twenty three, twelve, let me see here, twelve to
five to eight, a little bit of life in Texas with seventeen. But
once once at bass speed. Once it took a dip. Once It's yeah,
it took a dip. Yeah, it was. It was done.
You know, he's only thirty seven years old, Carlos Gomez, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, and he's been out of the game since, oh,
twenty nineteen, four years ago, so he was done at thirty three.
Basically, he was done at about twenty eight twenty nine. And I really
see, I really see a comp between him and Bias. I think that's
a great cop of one I was not thinking about. But Timmy approach matters.
That's why I preach it. I mean it's like, you know,
particularly guys with great bat speed, they get older, Timmy, it slows
down. And I'm sure he's not motivated in Detroit. It's a bad team.
Yeah, and he's the big dog there. They paid him a lot
of money to come in and he is actually what the bet and maybe that's
feeding on itself, Timmy. Well, you know what, there's there's only
one. There's only one Guerrero Senior, right, Betting on another one is
asking a lot? Right. Yeah, Now he would, he would,
he would hit everything and anything. But that's such a rarity, it really
is. Well it's great I hand coordination. It's like you know, it's
those are all outliers and Harby bias outlier was his bat speed. I mean
it was crazy, Yeah, exactly, he and Gary Sheffield. I mean
those are the comps. And you don't caught many people's bat speed to those
two cats. And uh, and you know, it's just it's a it's
a shame to him because that was an exciting player for several years. And
yeah, it's man battled me for grabbing us my short so I gotta find
somebody else. I can't contendue with this. No, Well, babe.
There should be hopefully somebody out there pick up you know who. He doesn't
have the numbers yet to show for it, but I've watched him a couple
of times now and then. This kid is a good player, and he's
going to be I think, a really good player a year or two down
the road. Nuts a nettle kid in Anaheim. Oh, Zach mat Yeah,
for sure. He Yeah, if he's out there somewhere, give him,
give him a look over by as I like what I'm seeing at the
plate. But the glove man, he's gonna be a good player, he
really, Yes, I think he's up for the duration. I would hope.
So, I mean he's he's not hit much, but unless we talked
about on the last podcast, I mean they're they're good at bats. Uh,
he's gonna be a good player. It's a good two striker party.
I'm looking all right here. I am Timmy. I'm on your twenty team
site. These are my possible replacements. Okay, HAROLDO Perdoma, who's playing
really well, get him, go get him, John Birdie, John Birdie,
and I think I'll pass JP Crawford. It's not a good player,
but yeah, I mean it's I don't know, he's better than Hobby Bayaz,
Josie Berrera starting to actually show some signs of life. Yeah, he's
doing Yeah, Lewis Rahifo. I probably pass on him because it looks like
he might be a part time player. But yeah, yeah, but I
mean there's there's but I don't know. Tim, it's it's not I got,
I got, I'm done. I'm nice to pick him up off the
waiver wire. I want to. I want to play zero point zero,
but it's left for um for Japanese or Asian players. But Tim Tobby bayas
zero point zero. It's it's zero home runs, a zero stolen basis.
There you go. If the zero fits, wear it the tay final,
break it back. Let's see you're picking up this weekend? Okay prompt two
kind of questions and discussion. So we were five minutes over over time here,
but not not too bad. No, I'm impressed. I figured after
it took us forty minutes to get through the first question, we'd be struggling.
But no, it worked out well at the end. All right,
what one hitter are you gonna be targeting this Sunday? Well, again,
I don't very often look to the Pittsburgh Pirates for anything. But g Man
Troy is gonna miss eight weeks with eleft achilles strain, and I think it's
time to give you a Joe, your average Joe. Joe. Look,
he's gonna play full time. Pirates are playing well, he's playing well.
Uh five percent rosters the CBS h Connor Joe gets my boat for the hitter.
Well, he's got some Asian ancestry, and it to me he's from
Hawaii. So that's probably another reason that you like him. But another reason
for use you to use zero play zero. Yeah, I think I think
he's I think he's a part time player, but I think you could do
a lot worse. Hobby pie as comes to mind, any Rendon comes to
mind, Well, I think he's a full time player for the next two
months. Totally agree. And his first base outfield eligible. And you know
what, I got a couple of weeks where I got Brandon Belt sitting there.
We'll talk about zero point zero, and I'm ready to move on from
Brandon Belt. We're heading in the last week of April, and you know
what, I'm gonna miss his one or two hot streaks this year, but
I think I'll look at the option of consistent play at maybe a lower level.
How's that sound. Yeah, it's just terrible to me. I mean
he is, yeah, absolutely brutal. And I thought he was done.
I thought it was not a few years ago. But I was surprised he
got a big contract. I think that was a mistake signed by the Blue
Jays, I'm afraid. So. Yeah, I like what they attempted to
do. It just hasn't worked out thus far. Yep, I agree,
I mean, I agree anyway, he might be done. Okay, what's
the one pitcher are you targeting for this Sunday? Well, you nailed most
of my waiver wire did in the question in the questions, Kyle Bridge,
He's definitely in there. I'm gonna put Mason Miller in there, even though
he's marginally over fifty percent, just as a reminder because he won't be at
that level and ESPN leagues yet. Uh Ronsnee contraris. But the guy that
I want to mention right now is a guy that's a setup guy, but
he keeps getting saves, and when he's not getting saves, he's getting holds
and he's rostered to the two in the twenty seven percent, and that's Jose
Cajeta in Anaheim. I think it's Kihata. He had a yeah, yeah,
he's now up to three saves. He got another one this week.
I had him roster and I think in every dining sit league and I don't
known him anymore, so I'm really pissed off about that. I agree,
I agree to Yeah. I think it's I think it's time that everybody,
you know, it looks like Anaheim, even though they you know, they
have asked of as as there supposed closer, it looks very much like a
committee to me. And with three saves early pitching, well, I think
you get a guy there that could by the end of the year even as
the supposed set up guy, I end up with ten twelve saves that counts.
Yeah, I agreed, Yeah, Timmy, that is a rap,
my friend, great stuff. I f that was a lot of fun today.
We moved back on Sunday with your waiver wire and lots of others stuff.
It sounds good because I think my waiver wire is going to start It's
gonna start becoming a little more reasonable now as we move into May. And
I don't think you'll see too many where there's twenty five names on it anymore.
So that gives us more time for stuff. Right there you go,
Timmy good stuff. Everybody, enjoy your week and Tim, good luck with
all your teams. Everybody else, good luck with all your teams. Unless
you play with me, then I hope you have a down weekend. How
about that today? Sending bad vibes. So all those people in front of
me, all those people in front of me in d L five, which
is like five people, and have a good team. Everybody is. It
seems like everybody's doing well in that league. So I know that's not true,
but a lot of people with triple digits in that league at the moment.
Yeah, I think we're sitting somewhere around fourth or so. And yeah,
there's there's a lot of teams in the Hunts and I think it's gonna
stay that way for a while because all of us are dealing with some sort
of injury, melody or pitching for pitching challenges, and it'll keep the lead
close up top. Well, I think it'll keep a lot of Dynasty leagues
close up top this year because we're seeing a lot of the unexpected and what's
down is up and vice versa, and that allows for opportunities again. Everybody
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it'll be I think it's going to be a good place for a nice little
community that we can establish there. Yeah, I'm really looking forward to helping
out in any way. I can. You know the video thing, well,
that's that might be hard to take, but there's got to be a
paper bag I can wear that will make things well. I'll give you.
I can give you access and you could do your lord to have to explain
to you how to use the screen cast out of that hot damn you you
after thirteen years at some point in time, control damn, it would be
mine. I actually I actually put my little I have my little my face,
my head in the lower right hand corner, Timmy So. And I
forgot to shave the first time I did it, that was pretty embarrassing.
But so I forgot to shave starting in about nineteen seventy eight. I've got
my I got my grandfather glasses on two, Timmy So, I got reading
glasses. Like I just can't read anymore without my glasses, and it makes
me look about fifteen years older as well. So I mean distinguished, distinguished.
Yeah, I know, but I have to wear them. I can't.
I literally can't see anymore. I cannot read. So anyway, it
is a rout, my friend, I will talk to you on Sunday.
Yeah, a good weekend. We'll catch you on Sunday,